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Lady Catherine Gordon (c. 1474 –October 1537) was a Scottish noblewoman and the wife of Yorkist pretender Perkin Warbeck, who claimed he was Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. After her imprisonment by King Henry VII of England, she became a favoured lady-in-waiting of his wife, Elizabeth of York. She had a total of four husbands, but there ...
Lady Catherine Gordon Perkin Warbeck ( c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York , who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called " Princes in the Tower ".
Clothes were also made for her companion, Lady Catherine Gordon, the widow of Perkin Warbeck. [9] The clothes were embroidered by John Flee. [ 10 ] In May 1503, James IV confirmed her possession of lands and houses in Scotland, including Methven Castle , Stirling Castle , Doune Castle , Linlithgow Palace and Newark Castle in Ettrick Forest ...
Lady Catherine Gordon (died October 1537), probably a daughter of Elizabeth Hay, she married firstly, Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499), notorious for claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the young princes who disappeared from history in the Tower of London; she married secondly, James Strangeways of Fyfield (d. 1515); she ...
Patrick Gibson as Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English crown who claims to be Richard of York. Caroline Goodall as Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, the Queen's paternal grandmother. Goodall was the only actor to appear in both The White Queen and The White Princess. Amy Manson as Catherine "Cathy" Gordon, wife of Perkin Warbeck
Lady Catherine was born at Haddo near Tarves in Aberdeenshire. [1] She was a daughter of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, and his second wife, the former Lady Susan Murray. [2] Her elder half sister was Lady Ann Gordon, the first wife of William Dalrymple-Crichton, 5th Earl of Dumfries, 4th Earl of Stair.
Warbeck claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder brother Edward V was dead, and that he was legitimate – a contentious point.
Elizabeth Lock provided black velvet hoods for Lady Catherine Gordon, the widow of Perkin Warbeck, in October 1498 and in March 1499, and a crimson velvet bonnet in 1502, [19] and in November 1498 and April 1499 black velvet bonnets with a gold border and partlets for Lady Anne Percy, one the gentlewomen attending Elizabeth of York. [20]